Plugin Availability The Syndication Feed Import plugin is available in the blojsom add-on bundle. This is a separate download from the blojsom.war file.

Availability

Available as of blojsom 2.26.

Description

Allows you to import entries from a syndication feed into your blog. This is useful if you are migrating your blog from another software package to blojsom.

The underlying library ROME currently handles the following syndication formats.

Today it accepts all flavors of RSS (0.90, 0.91 Netscape, 0.91 Userland, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0 and 2.0) and Atom 0.3 feeds.

You may import a syndication feed if it is one of those formats.

Installation and Setup

Plugin Setup and Configuration

After downloading the blojsom add-on bundle, copy the blojsom-addon-plugins-{version}.jar, jdom-1.0.jar, and rome-0.6.jar file into your /WEB-INF/lib directory.

In your global /WEB-INF/plugin.properties file, add the following line:

syndication-feed-importer=org.blojsom.plugin.importer.SyndicationFeedImportPlugin

Required Permissions

A user must have the following permissions in order to use this plugin.

import_syndication_feed

Usage

Log in to the administration console. The syndication feed import page is available under Plugin Settings | Configure Plugins.

You can submit a URL to the syndication feed you would like to import.